It's a wonder that 2/3 of the classic Motorhead lineup lived to 65+. I can't even imagine the amphetamine intake it required to tour and play as fast and loud as No Sleep Til Hammersmith... every night.

We live in the fucked age. Get used to it. - dhex

holy shit there will never be an end until the sweet release of death (as dictated by the death panels, natch) - lunch

Damn, we keep losing 90's rockers. Hopefully when I reflect back on 2018 I won't be looking back in anger.

"ike Wile E. Coyote salivating over a "4000 Ways To Prepare Roadrunner" cookbook without watching his surroundings, the Road Runner of Societal Inertia snuck up on them both and beepbeeped them off the mesa."
--Shem

She's one of those people, like Prince, who never resonated with me, but who I respected the craft and that they really affected others. Like my LGBT friends are obviously going to be drawn to the writer of The Left Hand of Darkness.

Hindu is the cricket of religions. You can observe it for years, you can have enthusiasts try to explain it to you, and it's still baffling. - Warren

Is there a film project in the works? I know there's a miniseries version of Left Hand of Darkness she was attached to.

"Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."
"Cyberpunk never really gave the government enough credit for their ability to secure a favorable prenup during the Corporate-State wedding." - Shem

She's one of those people, like Prince, who never resonated with me, but who I respected the craft and that they really affected others. Like my LGBT friends are obviously going to be drawn to the writer of The Left Hand of Darkness.

As it is with so many of them, great writer, retarded politics. She wins big points with me for The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas and the original Earthsea trilogy.

Yeah but how can you tell at a glance which junk a raccoon is packing? Also, gay raccoons? - Hugh Akston
Nothing you can say is as important as the existence of a functioning marketplace of ideas, go set yourself on fire. - JasonL

She's one of those people, like Prince, who never resonated with me, but who I respected the craft and that they really affected others. Like my LGBT friends are obviously going to be drawn to the writer of The Left Hand of Darkness.

As it is with so many of them, great writer, retarded politics. She wins big points with me for The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas and the original Earthsea trilogy.

Someone on Twitter (Arthur Chu of all people) made a good point that she was very willing to poke holes in her own politics - i.e. The Dispossessed is mostly about how a anarcho-communist SJW utopia is deeply flawed, as the main plot and point of view is from someone fleeing such a society as a refugee)

when you wake up as the queen of the n=1 kingdom and mount your steed non sequiturius, do you look out upon all you survey and think “damn, it feels good to be a green idea sleeping furiously?" - dhex

She's one of those people, like Prince, who never resonated with me, but who I respected the craft and that they really affected others. Like my LGBT friends are obviously going to be drawn to the writer of The Left Hand of Darkness.

As it is with so many of them, great writer, retarded politics. She wins big points with me for The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas and the original Earthsea trilogy.

Someone on Twitter (Arthur Chu of all people) made a good point that she was very willing to poke holes in her own politics - i.e. The Dispossessed is mostly about how a anarcho-communist SJW utopia is deeply flawed, as the main plot and point of view is from someone fleeing such a society as a refugee)

I HAAAATED that book when I read it, but the more I think about it, the more interesting it is as a critical study of a hypothetical political/economic culture. But GAWD is it dry for most of the book. And the whole refugee thing at the end was just kind of baffling, but I may have been just beaten down by the plodding prose and glacial pace of the first three quarters of the book. I never have read anything else she did. I got a copy of The Left Hand of Darkness but never brought my self to open it.

"The constitution is more of a BDSM agreement with a safe word." - Sandy

"Neoliberalism. Austerity. Booga booga!!!!" - JasonL

"We can't confirm rumors that Lynndie England is in the running to be Gina Haspel's personal aide." - DAR

I recall liking the first Earthsea book, but the 2nd was a big wtf to me after the first. I don't recall the third, and I think I skipped the 4th since it sounded like a continuation of the second. It's been many years, though, so perhaps I should reread them.

I just read "The Word for the World is Forest" by her in Again, Dangerous Visions. It was... not good. It's the 2nd in the Hainish books (after Left Hand and before Dispossessed) and reading it definitely doesn't make me want to read the others. It was as subtle as a Captain Planet episode.

We live in the fucked age. Get used to it. - dhex

holy shit there will never be an end until the sweet release of death (as dictated by the death panels, natch) - lunch